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Jenny Gold

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Gold is a Senior Correspondent for Kaiser Health News and reports regularly for NPR's Morning Edition and All Things Considered and for KHN’s print partners, including USA Today, the Washington Post, McClatchy and MSNBC. In addition, she is a frequent guest on CSPAN, NPR's On Point and The Diane Rehm Show.

Cafeteria worker Ma Jesusa Keberenge presents an employee petition to University of Washington Medical Center management on April 7, 2020. Cafeteria workers requested a deep cleaning of the Plaza Cafe and a protective barrier for cashiers!-->…

Dr. Katrina Michel, a physician at Berkeley Pediatrics says even kids she’s known for years don’t recognize her in her protective gear. “When I walked into their room with a shield, mask and gown on, the kids’ eyes were wide, they were!-->…

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - In the same week that physicians at the University of California-San Francisco medical center were wiping down and reusing protective equipment like masks and gowns to conserve resources amid a surge of COVID-19!-->!-->!-->…

About 7 million people across the San Francisco Bay Area began to “shelter in place” Tuesday to limit the spread of the new coronavirus. Although public health officials acknowledged the orders were drastic, they also agreed they were!-->…

Limited testing capacity in California is a pressing concern, Gov. Gavin Newsom said during a news conference. The number of test kits is inadequate, the state faces a shortage of reagents needed to run the tests, and many counties can’t!-->…

In Vacaville, California, one case, the first documented instance of community transmission in the U.S., left more than 200 hospital workers under quarantine and unable to work for weeks. File photo: Pixabay.
VACAVILLE, CA - As the!-->!-->!-->…

Sutter Health will pay $575 million to settle a closely watched antitrust case filed by California Attorney General Xavier Becerra (above), whose office had accused the nonprofit health care giant of using its market dominance in Northern!-->…

In 2017, 70,237 Americans died from drug overdoses, and 47,173 from suicide, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In 2018, nearly 20% of adults experienced a mental illness, according to the National Alliance on!-->…

Danielle Jones reads through the recipe for Nerd Lyfe (v2) vape juice. After five years of buying her favorite flavor (red licorice) at her local vape shop, this is Jones’ first attempt at making her own e-liquid. Photo credit: Heidi de!-->…

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra (D) when he discussed climate change, fuel efficiency standards and the wildfires in his state during a Washington Post series of conversations with public officials and industry leaders on energy!-->…

After reporting by KHN, NPR and CBS, Fresenius has agreed to waive Sovereign Valentine's huge bill for out-of-network dialysis care. Photo credit: Tommy Martino for KHN.
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Fresenius, one of the two largest dialysis!-->!-->!-->…

Sovereign Valentine and his wife, Jessica, wait for a dialysis machine to filter his blood. Before finding a dialysis clinic in their insurance network, the Valentines were charged more than half a million dollars for 14 weeks of the!-->…

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